For widescreen monitors zoom to 150%, for medium wide to 125%, and use down key if necessary
Lighthouse OpTex/Canon 14.5-480/960 EC Lens 
for Super-16 Film or Video
£195 a day £595 a week but ring to discuss 01406 351 522    07850 054 590


John Aitchison and the big Lighthouse EC Lens    'Oddie goes Wild'


This is an exceptionally high quality and versatile lens made by OpTex from specially selected glass,  a 1000mm. zoom, (14.5-480/960).  Primarily a film lens, it is equally at home on digital video cameras, on which it is an ‘Electronic Cinematography’ lens, HD or SD, 
which simply means that a film cameraman will feel at home with it.
Used by 'Planet Earth', 'Elephant Diaries', 'Oddie goes Wild', 'Autumn Watch' 'Natural World' etc.
and used on top-end 35mm commercials.

 

  
With its HD2x converter this lens is sufficiently high quality to complement high-definition
and gives superb quality in standard definition. 
It  is ideal for wildlife or sport and not over-big 
esp. when you don’t have to carry 
a variety of other lenses about too.
It comes read to go on a base-plate
in its own soft carry case
that can drop into a hard case for freighting.
It is an enormously productive lens
with the 4.8-48/96  or HJ4.7x11 you have a range of 200:1 

Whether for film or video this lens has particular advantages:
- Fully mounted and fixed to a plate its 'out of the bag', click onto the tripod and ready to go
 - You can get in close where others cannot reach.
- You can find the subject instantly, by pulling out, clocking it and zooming in
- all with the Microforce control.  And you can frame up appropriately 
- rather than be stuck with one shot size be it right or wrong.
- You can get in close where others cannot reach.
- You can shoot a sequence with the one lens, wide, medium, close-up and very close-up. 
- You don’t need to frig about changing lenses scaring animals off & losing time as you do so. 


The lens comes  with balanced 
Sachtler  head and legs or bridge plate,

with a Microforce zoom Control with clutch,
with a remote on/off

with ARRI PL and Sony B4 mounts
Soft carry-case to take camera and lens combined

(can be hired with SR2, DigiBeta790 or SX 90WSP,

or HD730 or 900r  see links below)  

13 inches long   4.7 kg   T3 - 300  T5 - 480


To get the best out of this lens:

 

1)    you need a balanced head tripod.  (We can supply, a Sachtler 20 or 25,  they are the perfect combination.  Alternatively we have a sliding bridge-plate for your Ronford 4, or ours. )  
The balanced head means that the camera and lens can be balanced on the tripod, without the need for a sliding bridge plate, so eliminating any tendency for the shot to lift or sag at the end of a move, 
or indeed to tip forward and go a. over t.!!! 
2)    To optimize speed of use and leave one hand solely concerned with focus change, it comes with a  pan-bar operated  Microforce zoom control with clutch. 
3) To obviate the need to repeatedly disassemble and reassemble the camera and lens, we have made a soft case so the two can travel together and it's straight out of the bag and onto the tripod
4) The base plate does not have to be removed when attaching a wide angle.


 with raincover
         right: 4.8 SuperWide then 14.5-960

  

 



see terms and conditions

And if you hire this lens with a lighthouse camera 
then you can get an even better price.

 Ring any time, night or day.  We'll deliver/collect any time, night or day too.
07850 054 590  /  01406 351 522  / 
Simon@lighthouse-films.co.uk


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 Cameras for hire;   DibiBeta790,  DigiBeta for Wildlife,  SX,  SX for Wildlife,  Super-16 SR2,  

OpTex 14.5-960,   HiDef   Lighthouse cameras for Wildlife

 

 

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